![]() Nathan has to go and live with Henry, his dad. I look forward to more works from this new author. I learned some new tidbits about British culture and enjoyed Cockcroft's writing style. This was a very interesting read, and I was surprised by the depth of the emotions evoked from the story. Overall, Counter Clockwise is an unusual story that will appeal to tweens of both genders and of varying degrees of interest in the science fiction genre. At first, the reader isn't sure what to make of him, but as the story progresses, he becomes quite likable. ![]() The character of Bartleby the Beefeater is akin to a large, eccentric and mischievous Fairy Godmother. The relationship between Nathan and his father Henry extends far below the surface interactions that are common in other novels for tweens, giving young readers a chance to truly think about how father and son might bond after the loss of a mother and wife. Nathan is torn between his desire to set time on the right course and his own grief at the loss of his mother. His father is trying, inadvertently, to stop the tragic events that cause the death of Nathan's mother. Nathan's adventures through time are not as exciting or magical as other literary time-travellers. Once the British vocabulary is understood, the story is very gripping. American readers will likely have to familiarize themselves with certain important terms Cockcroft uses to advance the plot, like Beefeater, another name for the Yeomen Warders who guard the tower of London, and Routemasters, or red double-decker buses. This unique story is British author Jason Cockcroft's first novel, and provides an interesting and cerebral read for tweens that will get them thinking about topics they might not be familiar with. With Bartleby's help, Nathan must stop his father from setting time spinning by changing the past, before it's too late. What Nathan learns, however, is that some things in life, and time, are meant to happen, and that changing them can alter the world in unimaginable ways. ![]() It seems that Henry is inadvertently travelling through time, trying to stop Nathan's mother from getting hit by the bus that ended her life. One night, however, during his physics review, Nathan meets someone that takes him on a strange adventure through time: an enormous Beefeater named Bartleby who seems to know quite a bit about Nathan's life. Nathan's life is humdrum: he attends school but doesn't really pay attention, his father is making him take physics review at a local community college to prepare for exams, and his only friend, Moll, can't seem to get through to him. Now he lives with his father, Henry, in a dingy apartment in a run-down project slated to be demolished at anytime. Nathan Cobbe's life changed forever the day his mother was tragically killed in a bus accident. Gets us to point A.Originally posted on my blog: ! Check it out for more reviews! That and it looks like it is getting us right to point A. Our center of rotation, this is our point P, and we're rotating by negative 90 degrees. Which point is the image of P? So once again, pause this video and try to think about it. ![]() Than 60 degree rotation, so I won't go with that one. And it looks like it's the same distance from the origin. Like 1/3 of 180 degrees, 60 degrees, it gets us to point C. So does this look like 1/3 of 180 degrees? Remember, 180 degrees wouldīe almost a full line. One way to think about 60 degrees, is that that's 1/3 of 180 degrees. ![]() So this looks like aboutĦ0 degrees right over here. P is right over here and we're rotating by positive 60 degrees, so that means we go counterĬlockwise by 60 degrees. It's being rotated around the origin (0,0) by 60 degrees. Which point is the image of P? Pause this video and see That point P was rotated about the origin (0,0) by 60 degrees. ![]()
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